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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Unalaska in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.9739S, -166.7473WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 101 km S of Unalaska, Alaska (63 miles). Unique identifier: us1000dahz. Ids that are associated to the event: ak18714718, us1000dahz. The temblor was picked up at 21:01:10 / 9:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -166.7473 West, latitude 52.9739 North, depth = 30.05 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30.05 km (19 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/03/18 / 2018-03-20 08:01:10 / March 20, 2018 @ 8:01 am UTC/GMT.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 101 km S of Unalaska, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -166.7473° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.9739° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 101km S of Unalaska, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-20 08:01:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-31 13:14:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 178 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.825 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 209 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000dahz Id of event.
Event Code 1000dahz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18714718,us1000dahz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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